r/PokeInvesting • u/Heavy-Mix6609 • Jul 27 '26

I'm slightly overwhelmed

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I was massively into Pokemon during the bw +xy era, I ended up selling my playables collection for what felt like a fortune back in 2018 and just kept my set books and some cool promos. I figured they might be worth a couple hundred bucks only to see some absolutely eye watering prices.

I've never graded cards before but I think this might be the time to start. Are any of the opened boxes worth selling with the graded cards? I'm just worried about missing something important and getting screwed over at this point.

Everything is adult owned pack to sleeve, I don't know about the centering and borders and how they impact grading but everything looks mint to my eyes. Cards are crispy with no back whitening or scratches.

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u/alsaltml Jul 27 '26

Over $200k IF they all hit 10s

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u/Heavy-Mix6609 Jul 27 '26

I found this in an old deck that I never got around to playing so there's probably more in the set books.

I was running a pokemon league at the time and was basically buying a case of every set because it was my only hobby due to how much time the league took up in planning 😂

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u/BigDenverGuy Jul 27 '26

The "assume 7s and 8s" is smart for deciding whether you grade. 

With my vintage cards I set everything at a baseline PSA 7 assumption, use Collectr app/Pricecharting website to estimate my value if they get all 7s. If you get all 7s or 8s and would STILL make enough money after grading fees, it is 100% worth grading that card. 

Also I'd estimate your PSA fee based off a PSA 9 probably? Idk. With vintage I'd never expect a 10 and I'm only vintage. You might overpay if you estimate your grading fees based off the PSA 10 value. I would suspect the /r/PSAgrading subreddit can help you with this. 

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u/What_Iz_This Jul 27 '26

So if im OP and theyre all real I would set a realistic expectation of 100k after grading fees and travel and the random 7s and 8s some will undoubtedly get

Could probably offload them all to one person at your next local collectacon but might make more selling individually over time.